GUHP Summer Newsletter
vol. 2 issue 3, June 17, 2019
Contents:
1) Announcing: Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History
2) "Global Urban History Summer" 2019: Conference Programs Available
3) 2019 Travel Awards
1) Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History
Global Urban History blog editors Michael Goebel, Joseph Ben Prestel, and Tracy Neumann have just announced a game-changing new publication opportunity in the field: Cambridge Elements Global Urban History.
From the GUH blog post:
See the full announcement on the blog. Congratulations to Profs. Goebel, Prestel, and Neumann!
2) Conference Programs
All GUHP members are heartily welcome to join us at either or both of these events. Registration is ongoing.
Whether or not you can attend, do take a look at what your GUHP colleagues are working on!
3) 2019 Travel Awards
The GUHP Travel Award Committee is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2019 GUHP Travel Awards. These Awards make up a central part of the mission of GUHP and are made possible by the financial support of GUHP members as well as from our collaborators at both of our conferences his year.
The Awards facilitate participation in GUHP-sponsored events by junior scholars, and by scholars otherwise underrepresented in conversations in the fields of urban and global history. This year, the awards will allow twelve scholars to join us either in San Juan or in Leicester.
In San Juan (Awards co-sponsored by the World History Association):
John Mwangi Githigaro, St. Pauls' University, Kenya
"Legacies of Colonial Agency in Africa: Reflections of an ‘Ethnicized’ Space in Kenya and Rwanda
Darryl Brock, City University of New York
"Science and the City: Situating Urban Imperialism in Global New York"
Claire Payton, University of Virginia
"Concrete Kleptocracy in Haiti"
In Leicester UK (Awards co-sponsored by the Centre for Urban History)
Darinee Alagirisamy, University of Hong Kong
“Policing the City Toddy Shop: Perspectives from Madras and the Straits Settlements, 1920-1937”
Fakhar Bilal, Royal Holloway University of London
“Experiences of Making Urban Colonial Multan, 1849-1947”
Arnab Chakraborty, University of York
“Urbanisation and Sanitation: Contestation and Collaboration among the Indian Elites and the State in Colonial Madras, 1919-1935”
Neta Feniger, Tel Aviv University
“The Global and the Urban History of the Crosstown Expressway,” paper co-authored with Roy Kozlovsky
Nabaparna Ghosh, Babson College
“A City Nation: Paras and Everyday Life in Colonial Calcutta”
Ayan Meer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"People as Colonial Infrastructure: Urbanization through internal and external migration, from the new cities of the Agro Pontino to the Fascist Italian Empire in Libya (1931-1943)"
Jake Christopher Richards, University of Cambridge
"Rio de Janeiro, liberated Africans, and the urban Atlantic during the abolition of the slave trade, c. 1839-1864"
Gil Shohat, Humboldt Universität Berlin
"Anticolonial Encounters. London, the Left and Decolonisation in Britain, 1930s to 1960s"
Shira Wilkof, Tel Aviv University
"City, Ecology, and the Global: Expert Networks and the Postwar Search for Environmental Planning Alternatives"
Michael Yeo, University of Oxford
"The Significance of Small Ports: Human Mobility in Sandakan, North Borneo, 1878–1942"
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